Top 35 Adder Quotes
#1. Six of the juiciest from a cane of the type that biteth like a serpent and stingeth like an adder, as the fellow said.
P.G. Wodehouse
#2. I fear no man, no woman;
flower does not fear
bird, insect nor adder.
Hilda Doolittle
#3. I think these movements and become them, here,
In this room's stillness, none of them about,
And relish them all-until I think of where
Thrashed by a crook, the cursive adder writes
Quick V's and Q's in the dust and rubs them out.
from Movements
Norman MacCaig
#4. To whom the wilie Adder, blithe and glad.
John Milton
#5. My God, Justin, do you hate him so?"
"Bah!" said his Grace ... "does one hate an adder? Because it is venomous and loathsome one crushes it underfoot, as I shall crush this Comte.
Georgette Heyer
#6. They take their punishment so well, so cheerfully: I go out with an adder in my heart, and an asp in my tongue, and every night I sow thorns in the garden of my soul.
Oscar Wilde
#7. What is the use of going right over the old track again? There is an adder in the path which your own feet have worn. You must make tracks into the Unknown.
Henry David Thoreau
#8. One cannot always keep an adder in one's breast to feed one, nor rise up every night to sow thorns in the garden of one's soul.
Oscar Wilde
#9. Every hangover feels like the worst hangover you've ever had, but this one was definitely a classic. One for the ages. He felt like all the water had been forcibly sucked out of his body, like an apricot in a dehydration chamber, and replaced with venom from an angry adder.
Lev Grossman
#10. She was not unattractive until she focused her eyes on a human being, when their unblinking coldness gave the effect of the stare of an adder.
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
#11. Was peering through the microscope at the tooth of an adder I had captured behind the coach house that very morning after church, when there came a light knock at the laboratory door.
Alan Bradley
#12. I've learned that it helps when you're in love with a mummy to pay attention to little things like curses, adder stones, and long-winded archaeologists.
Colleen Houck
#13. What's this?" Amarantha said, her voice lilting despite the adder's smile she gave me ...
"Just a human thing I found downstairs," the Attor hissed, and a forked tongue darted out between his razor-sharp teeth.
Sarah J. Maas
#14. The tongue of the adder, visible only briefly, is a small matter.
L.E. Modesitt Jr.
#15. I love 'Monty Python,' 'Black Adder,' 'Fawlty Towers.' I'm a huge fan of British comedy.
Isla Fisher
#16. And, anyway, no matter how much you may behave like the deaf adder of Scripture which, as you are doubtless aware, the more one piped, the less it danced, or words to that effect, I shall carry on as planned.
P.G. Wodehouse
#17. Eye of newt, and toe of frog,
Wool of bat, and tongue of dog,
Adder's fork, and blind-worm's sting,
Lizard's leg, and owlet's wing,
For a charm of powerful trouble,
Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.
Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn, and caldron bubble.
William Shakespeare
#18. It is the bright day that brings forth the adder, and that craves wary walking.
William Shakespeare
#19. Balderdash, I say, let the sword turn into an adder and the adder a salmon and the salmon a birch twig and birch twig a sword and the sword a tongue ... Let it all run together so swiftly that it cannot be separated again ...
Sjon
#20. ADDER, n. A species of snake. So called from its habit of adding funeral outlays to the other expenses of living.
Ambrose Bierce
#21. It was about knowing you were going to be underestimated by everyone and then punishing them for those very thoughts.
Carrie Brownstein
#22. You plan, you prepare, and you'll do just fine.
Nick Cole
#23. I have been afraid of guns, I have sworn I would never use a gun on another person and so did not need one, and I have wanted to deny the existence of evil.
Taya Kyle
#24. Oops, I thought. Oops is an all-purpose word standing for every bit of profanity, blasphemy, and pornographic and scatological execration I could think of.
Orson Scott Card
#25. When I visited Guantanamo Bay several years ago, I met a team of psychiatrists treating the detainees. When I asked how they distinguished between, say, schizophrenia or bipolarity and a bedrock religious commitment to holy war, they couldn't answer.
Monica Crowley
#26. Perhaps Dexter's dutiful but uninspired brain pictured him as Sherlock Holmes, able to examine the wheel ruts and deduce that a left-handed hunchback with red hair and a limp had gone down the road carrying a Cuban cigar and a ukulele. I would find no clues, not that it mattered.
Jeff Lindsay
#28. I think they're bogus, honestly. How utter garbage like Crash and Million Dollar Baby can win best picture, where true works of art such as Garden State go untouched is beyond me. It just proves how close-minded America really is, and I refuse to take part in it.
Zach Braff
#29. This is where I want to be. Right here. Satiated and limp form pleasure with Z. Beautiful and whole from love with Z. I'm happy here.
Sarah Ann Walker
#30. Any magazine-cover hack can splash paint around wildly and call it a nightmare, or a witches sabbath or a portrait of the devil; but only a great painter can make such a thing really scare or ring true. That's because only a real artist knows the anatomy of the terrible, or the physiology of fear.
H.P. Lovecraft
#31. Gender equality cannot be achieved by cutting programs that allow girls to get the same chance to compete, learn, and play. The United States has had a solid history of commitment to its female athletes and expanding opportunity for women, and it is imperative that we continue on this path.
Linda Sanchez
#32. In the tradition of national income accounting, economic policymakers have typically focused on variables such as income, wealth, and consumption.
Ben Bernanke
#33. That's one of the best things about characters like Indiana Jones. I mean, he's funny. He's done really wicked things.
Rhys Darby
#34. When I tell a woman you really need to quit your soul-sucking job, she goes home, and she can tell her husband, 'I need to quit,' and he's like, 'O.K., let's do it.'
Martha Beck
#35. If you don't know by now, you're never going to know.
Jermaine Dupri
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